First edition. Bernal 7206. Croft 204. Glass, p. 673: “Atlas illustrates 1,295 place glyphs and variants from about 25 different Mexican Indian pictorial manuscripts. Text gives sources for all illustrations. A basic reference work.” Palau 217594. Ugarte 306. The author published a similar atlas in 1885 from Nahuatl sources with 462 place glyphs, but here the work is much enlarged. The lithographs of place names in prehispanic Mexico are well done and fascinating. “Antonio Peñafiel argued in this monumental work that place names preserved tradition in places where ‘history has completely disappeared’” (Raymond B. Craib, “A Nationalist Metaphysics: State Fixations, National Maps, and the Geo-Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Mexico” in The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 82, No. 1, February 2002, pp. 33-79 (Footnote 75). Mexican physician, author, and historian Antonio Peñafiel (1839-1922) was a noteworthy and prolific historian of languages and was responsible for the construction of the Mexican Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1889, which he constructed in Aztec style.